Edited by Kirsten Krauth and Angela Savage
Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist
Fremantle Press, 2024
Australian icon Kylie Minogue is the musical muse for this sparkling new anthology. Twenty-four writers, a third of whom identify as LGBTQIA+, used a Kylie Minogue song as the springboard for a new, original piece of work, covering the genres of crime, memoir, speculative fiction, poetry and science fiction – from Kylie’s 1987 release ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ all the way through to her newest album ‘Tension’.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Created and edited by Kirsten Krauth and Angela Savage the book serves as a follow-up to Minds Went WalkinG: Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined and Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined and it is equally as captivating. Each story carries the reader into different worlds and times as they are offered these brief moments in the lives of their characters before being whisked off to the next.’ Star Observer
About the Editors
Dr Kirsten Krauth is an author and arts journalist, poet and podcaster – and the commissioning editor of Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined. Her latest novel, Almost a Mirror, was shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award and Penguin Literary Prize, and named in The Guardian’s Best 20 Books of 2020. The novel was developed into a successful podcast and live festival show, exploring ’80s pop and post-punk songs, and went to #1 on the Apple Music Podcast Charts in Australia. Kirsten loves to write poetry and her poem ‘Pencils From Heaven’ was judged runner-up/ highly commended in the 2021 Blake Poetry Prize. Her PhD in Creative Writing was awarded the Stephen Parker Medal for Most Outstanding PhD at the University of Canberra. An 80s tragic, Kirsten once won a dancing competition at Festival Hall in Melbourne that was judged by … Kylie Minogue.
Angela Savage is a Melbourne writer, whose debut novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. All three of her Jayne Keeney PI novels were shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards, with The Dying Beach also shortlisted for the 2014 Davitt Award. Angela won the 2011 Scarlett Stiletto Award for short crime fiction, and her short stories have appeared in the anthologies including Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written By Women and Crime Scenes. Angela regularly chairs sessions at writers’ festivals and has taught writing in Australia and in the USA. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Monash University, giving her the Bond villain-like name of Doctor Savage. Angela is former CEO of Writers Victoria and currently works as CEO of Public Libraries Victoria. Her most recent novel is Mother of Pearl (2019, Transit Lounge).